February 19th, 2010 | 
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We know that asthma often goes hand in hand with other atopic conditions such as eczema and hayfever but it appears it may be holding hands with a few other diseases too. German researchers have taken a sneaky peek at the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register for the years 1964–2007 on 148,295 hospitalized asthma patients. They found that the rate of hospitalisation for an autoimmune disease was higher amongst the Asthmatic population than the general population, the most common being Polyarteritis Nodosa and Addisons disease. There is a healthy amount of speculation about Lymphocytes, cytokines and HLA systems, but that makes my brain hurt and its Friday so I wouldn’t dare to comment……
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